Mad in America

JULY 10, 2025

Over the next two decades, I cycled through seven psychiatric hospitalizations. Not once did any psychiatrist test my hormones, assess my gut health, take labs and evaluate my bloodwork, or talk to me about how nutrition, sleep, social situations, or blood sugar could be influencing my mood and state of mind.

Nutrition and mood

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I found a very informative letter dated years after Mom’s hospitalization addressed to her new psychiatrist. But the drugs failed to help my mother’s depression, and Dad told the doctor that “by the end of May ’59 she was so bad…I didn’t see how she could avoid hospitalization.”

Sleep and mental health

ADDitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

2, 3, 4 Lifestyle factors such as nutrition, exercise, and sleep exert epigenetic changes on DNA that influence how strongly or weakly ADHD genes are expressed. People with ADHD are more likely to get into car accidents, 24 become hospitalized, and engage in self-harmthan are their neurotypical peers. years , on average.

Eating disorders